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New comment by aykutseker in "Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money"

aykutseker — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:05:30 +0000

Is Tokenless measuring cost per completed task, or just cost per request, including errors and retries?

New comment by aykutseker in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

aykutseker — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:57:00 +0000

The text only part is the catch for me.

If it builds a UI and can't look at it, it's askin ls whether the app looks right.

New comment by aykutseker in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

aykutseker — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:09:21 +0000

A calculator gives you an answer. An LLM gives you an answer that sounds like it already checked itself.

New comment by aykutseker in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

aykutseker — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:25:51 +0000

I think a lot of people will file this under Java got structs.

That seems off. They're still objects, the new thing is that they can give up identity.

New comment by aykutseker in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

aykutseker — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:37:07 +0000

AI hiring starting to look like sports free agency.

Karpathy to Anthropic, now Noam to OpenAI.

New comment by aykutseker in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

aykutseker — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:03:04 +0000

Claude trying to make friends in a battle royale is funny.

But if the robot is anywhere near my house, I think I want the one that hesitates.

New comment by aykutseker in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

aykutseker — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:58:11 +0000

GitHub used to get code after someone had thought about it.

Agents are starting to use it while they think.

New comment by aykutseker in "I Love the Computer"

aykutseker — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:36:23 +0000

The machine is still fun.

It's the five layers of product growth between you and the machine that get tiring.

New comment by aykutseker in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

aykutseker — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:15:13 +0000

This is uncomfortably close to a normal interview task now.

Someone sends you a repo, says the install is broken, and asks you to take a look.

A lot of developers would run rpm install before thinking twice, especially if they were tired or looking for work.

New comment by aykutseker in "Claude Fable 5"

aykutseker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:52:02 +0000

who's tried it: is 2x the usage actually worth it over Opus 4.8 for daily work?

New comment by aykutseker in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

aykutseker — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:09:28 +0000

Moving from tdnf to dnf5 is interesting. Most internal platforms get more bespoke over time, not less.

New comment by aykutseker in "Why are large language models so terrible at video games?"

aykutseker — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:59:14 +0000

A failed test often points at the mistake. Most games just tell you that the outcome was bad.

New comment by aykutseker in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

aykutseker — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:59:15 +0000

Storage never ended up being the thing we worried about. The painful bits started once a workflow could touch external systems. Replaying state is one thing. Replaying a charge or an email is another. How are you dealing with that?

New comment by aykutseker in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

aykutseker — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:55:17 +0000

The independent AI explainer is generated by the same Gemini that writes the ad creative next to it, inside the same ads product. Independent of what, exactly

New comment by aykutseker in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

aykutseker — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:12:50 +0000

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

New comment by aykutseker in "Google I/O"

aykutseker — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:55:27 +0000

flash beating the pro it was distilled from is suspicious, not surprising.distillation usually loses you something. if the smaller model is winning on agentic evals, the more likely read is the evals weren't measuring agent quality in the first place. that's the bigger problem for builders, not which model to pick.

New comment by aykutseker in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

aykutseker — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:27:13 +0000

Clean room needs an independent second party with their own intent. An AI rewrite probably doesn't qualify, since its output traces directly to what it read.

New comment by aykutseker in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

aykutseker — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:13 +0000

the EU funds argument works both ways. plenty of countries received similar transfers and didn't compound it the same way. the interesting question isn't where the money came from, it's what Poland did with it that others didn't.

New comment by aykutseker in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

aykutseker — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:12:48 +0000

the real test is whether the Klein bottle business got a sympathy bump in sales

New comment by aykutseker in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

aykutseker — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:53:13 +0000

Grass is greener works at month two. By month nine your muscle memory is still wrong.